Dear Bill,
An example is the mile race that used to be held at the Olympic Games
and in other places.
This changed to the 1500 metre race and the mile is now rarely run at
all. It's records are now relatively unimportant.
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On 2009/10/13, at 10:16 , Bill Hooper wrote:
On Oct 12 , at 10:39 AM, John M. Steele wrote:
I would argue that (certain changes) would change the nature of the
game and invalidate statistics far more than a 1.6% change.
Several people have raised the specter of the awful calamity that
would befall the world if old statistics were "invalidated".
BIG DEAL!
I can't imagine anything more unimportant than worrying about
whether new records were compatible with old records. Other changes
have been made in football and other sports that have made new
statistics not perfectly consistent with the old ones. They either
ignore the difference, have two sets of statistics (the old and the
new) or put asterisks and footnotes by the new (or maybe the old)
statistics.
IT JUST ISN'T IMPORTANT!
Regards,
Bill Hooper
GO METRIC, AMERICA
(with or without the old "statistics")
